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Wellbutrin is commonly prescribed to women who are or may become pregnant for several reasons, including as an antidepressant SSRI aid and as a smoking cessation pill. Regardless of the reason, women who take this drug may experience a greater than average risk of infant child birth defects, including but not limited to heart defects, cleft palate, cleft lip, skeletal deformations and more. If your child experienced such a horrific side effect, please call us today for a free case evaluation on how we can help.
The Problem
Our firm is offering free nationwide case evaluations to families whose children were diagnosed with medical conditions at birth or shortly therafter when the mother ingested Wellbutrin or Bupropion during pregnancy. Specific birth defects include cardiac malformations (ASD, VSD, Left Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome, coarctation of the aorta, Tricuspid or Pulmonary Atresia, Pulmonary Stenosis, transposition of the great vessels or any other heart defect), neural tube defect, craniosynostosis, cleft lip, cleft palate, skeletal deformations, and club foot.
About Wellbutrin
Wellbutrin is an antidepressant drug prescribed to treat major depressive disorder, also called major depression and clinical depression, and seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression involving adverse side effects that occur each year during the same season. First approved by the FDA in 1985, bupropion hydrochloride was available for several years only under the brand name Wellbutrin. In 1996, the FDA approved a sustained-release tablet of this drug called Wellbutrin SR and, in 2003, approved an extended-release tablet known as Wellbutrin XL.
Wellbutrin carries a Pregnancy Category C classification, meaning that animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the fetus but that no adequate or well-controlled studies in humans have been performed.
Wellbutrin has been linked to congenital heart defects. Congenital heart defects affect approximately 40,000 babies each year, and one of the primary known causes of such birth defects is the ingestion of teratogenic drugs during pregnancy. A teratogen is a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus that can ultimately result in serious birth defects.
If you had a smoking problem or suffered from depression while you were pregnant, chances that you may have been prescribed Wellbutrin. Wellbutrin is used as an antidepressant and also to control of nicotine hunger in individuals in tobacco cessation programs.
Two Lives at Stake
When a doctor prescribes a medicine, he or she is expected to know the side effects of the medicine. When the patient is a pregnant woman, there are two lives at stake – the mother and the unborn child. The side effects of any medicine taken during pregnancy can affect the unborn child. The child may be born with birth defects.
Side Effects of Wellbutrin
One of the known side effects of taking Wellbutrin during pregnancy is that the child may be born with Pulmonary stenosis. Isolated pulmonary valve stenosis is the most common congenital form of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The congenitally stenotic pulmonary valve may be mobile and either bicuspid or tricuspid, with commissural fusion resulting in reduced valve area.
Pharmaceutical Products
A product is generally considered safe for its intended use. When the product in question is a pharmaceutical product, it is generally assumed to be safe because before a pharmaceutical product can be released in the market, it must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The product is generally subject to stringent tests before it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Warnings
If a pharmaceutical product is not safe or has any side effects, the product must carry a warning about the side effects. Even if no side effects are known at the time the product was released in the market, the manufacturer has a duty to warn the customers as and when a side effect is discovered.
Getting Legal Help
If your child is born with a birth defect and you had been prescribed Wellbutrin during pregnancy, you may have a claim for compensation. You may be eligible for compensation for the medical expenses for the treatment of your child and also compensation for your mental sufferings.
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